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by pryce 4y ago
1. I described Taibbi as failing to meet a threshold of credible reporting for reasons I've explicitly stated in a fair amount of detail and further linking to a 3000 word artcle on it by someone who analyses disinformation professiona
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by pryce 4y ago
I don't find Matt Taibbi's reporting on the Hamilton 68 dashboard credible. Caroline Orr has written a decent article about it here [1]. From my own investigations relating to social media bot behaviour in completely unrelated sp
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A superb article, and Bernstein comes across as incredibly genuine in his pursuit of better understanding. I'd love to have been part of his course on Arendt.
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> it just shows how hard you can shut someone down by just twitter outrage. Your analysis is absurd. First, supposing we only care about "free speech" and no other values is absurd from the outset*. It should be obvious that
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I feel like you've interpreted my comment mainly by the diving into the ethical content of the specific example I was using. The point of my example, if I was unclear, was that ethical questions very demonstrably arise from scientific
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Perhaps it's wise for everyone to carefully distinguish physical injury versus emotional damage. Perhaps it is true that we can tie ourselves into knots if we treat emotional damage as completely equivalent to physical injury. And, p
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by pryce 4y ago
This alarmist comparison of yours would impress basically no one who has studied in relevant fields, such as bioethics. The relationship between ethics and research has a fascinating and sobering history, one full of richness, horror, and
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I've felt this for years but never been able to express it so well.
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I agree with your location contender: Google street view has recent pass in May 2022. I believe the two small, triangular lighter colored trees next to the two taller darker ones with exposed trunkes visible in the article photo are visible
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by pryce 4y ago
If someone's stock is as incredibly overinflated as Tesla has been for so long, choosing the most effective way to liquidate stock without triggering a run becomes a social engineering problem with the incentive of a multi-billion doll
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by pryce 4y ago
For those wanting to understand the wider implications of this, Eva Galperin over at the EFF has been trying to raise awareness against stalkerware for a while. She cofounded the Coalition Against Stalkerware [1] and has a TED talk here [2]
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by pryce 4y ago
From my understanding of cryptocurrency and the people in it, I don't have the premise that founding a billion dollar (or 10 billion dollar) cryptocurrency is laudable. It strikes me that your comment would read by crypto fanbase as a
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by pryce 4y ago
Then we must decide whether it is the English-speaking or Mexican Spanish meaning of the word 'burrito' that we are even discussing. If we want to be accurate, we should define our goals in a specific way, which hasn't been d
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by pryce 4y ago
Most of the areas I checked out looked great, but... the section 3.4 on 'Ninja code' is terrible: It swaps to an ironic, sarcastic, in-jokey tone almost completely divorced from the previous sections that will leave much of the in
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by pryce 4y ago
Yes, I've done it myself. I bought a replacement battery for my early kindle from aliexpress for a very cheap price. I did need a hairdryer to heat the glued back and a proper plastic spudger would have been helpful. I believe I used
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by pryce 5y ago
My guess is that facebook engineer named 'di wang' of which at least one exists[1] was attempting to ensure the blocklist functionality worked in production. Then again, the employee I found is an engineer in the ads department,
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by pryce 5y ago
Many cultures have a long, ingrained history of making suicidal people's lives intentionally worse as a misguided attempt to discourage suicides. A book that discusses this phenomenon that I found helpful was Al Alvarez' book &qu
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by pryce 5y ago
I've just given some pretty concrete examples above; do you suppose I'm incorrect or perhaps portraying them inaccurately, or that the problem is so rare as to be dismisable? Notably, I didn't actually argue above that "
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by pryce 5y ago
This is an absurd view. Having your charity financially dependent on puppy killers or (say) weapons manufacturers undermines your ability to act ethically in various situations, which you may or may not see as important. Here you might pic
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by pryce 5y ago
how do we exclude the possibility that we are just seeing a leaf on its way falling (or blowing) between the subject that the photographer? Logically an event like that would be followed by the iphone not detecting a face, and therefore not
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by pryce 5y ago
My set of Netter's Anatomy flashcards from medical school a decade ago describe the functions of the deep fibers of masseter (the 2nd layer of the masseter muscle) as 'retracting' the mandible. Interestingly the cards also sa
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by pryce 5y ago
Oh it's exceptional; the film itself, like Merlin, is almost an artefact from the world that was slipping away. Only some of our most gifted filmmakers could conceive of how to go about this kind of project, let alone pull it off.
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by pryce 5y ago
You're in for a deeply strange, wild time. Stick with it after the bizarre opening and abrasive dialog; it gets better and is quite affecting by the end. Boorman depicts the Arthurian myth almost in religious way; it is intentionally s
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by pryce 5y ago
I believe the `= ""` makes this parameter 1. have a default value of empty string and 2. more importantly, makes it fit with the existing syntax for a function signature that indicates the function argument is optional. If I am n
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by pryce 5y ago
Having been a medical student in NZ attached to an infectious diseases team, the idea that NZ research (or even our ideas of best practice) are not heavily dependent on R&D and standards institutes from the USA isn't plausible. I f
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by pryce 5y ago
The half that is oddly combative over basic attempts to reduce risk of transmission of a disease that has now killed nearly 5 million people worldwide, 750,000 of whom lived in the USA, a nation that for many decades, until quite recently,
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by pryce 5y ago
I feel like treating at face value that Facebook is building things in a "responsible" manner—in the headline, even—is the opposite of journalism. If we showed our current state to people from 10 years ago, they would be too aston
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by pryce 5y ago
thank you, i misread that somehow.
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by pryce 5y ago
I do think that the novelty effect will quickly wear off. What is the future for 'virtual humans' after that? Will it be mainly virtual assistants (that people will quickly grow to hate)? Will they come to dominate pornography o
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by pryce 5y ago
Following trends like virtual humans is interesting, and honestly I don't know what things might look like with virtual humans in 15 or 20 years - but I do wish reporting took care not to veer into P.R. territory. EDIT: deleted a bit h

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